8.821 | Fall 2008 | Graduate

String Theory

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Lecture 09: Preview of Strings in N = 4 SYM; Hierarchy of Scaling dimensions; Conformal Symmetry in QFT

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Lecture notes on scale and conformal invariance in field theory, emergence of strings from gauge theory, conformal symmetry in QFT, the conformal group, and representation theory.

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Lecture 09: Preview of Strings in N = 4 SYM; Hierarchy of Scaling dimensions; Conformal Symmetry in QFT

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